Dear Husband’s only living grandparent visited us last week, flying in from Michigan. Grandma is 87 now and not very confident walking (or traveling), so it was a pretty big deal for her to come. She felt compelled, though, considering that she had so many babies to visit — five kids, five years old and under! The boys hadn’t seen her in two years, and she had never met M-Cat and our new, two-month-old nephew.

Grandma withstood a lot of fussing, crying, yelling, screaming, shrieking and a general ruckus most of the time, but she loved them all anyway.

We were especially grateful for Grandma’s visit because it meant that M-Cat has now met, and been photographed, with all three of her namesakes. We got a lot of snapshots of these two together.